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April 11

MMORPG staff

In a typical MMORPG's staff, does the lead programmer report to the lead sysadmin or vice-versa? NeonMerlin 00:37, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It would probably depend heavily on which MMORPG you are talking about. Corporate governance tends to be organization dependent. However, I would likely guess (no personal experience) that programing and system administration are considered to be separate departments so there isn't a "report-to" relationship between them. A possible organization in such a case is to have the Vice President of Programming and the Vice President of System Administration both be equals, and both reporting to the President, CEO, COO, CTO, CIO, etc. Requests by one department of the other would then be coordinated at the executive level. Of course, differences are bound to exist - there are likely MMORPGs where the lead programmer and the lead sysadmin are the same person. -- 128.104.112.85 (talk) 21:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

P.S. You may get a better response to this question at the Computing Help Desk. -- 128.104.112.85 (talk) 21:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Trogdor in Guitar Hero 2

Do the following instructions, from the loading screen of "Trogdor" in Guitar Hero 2, mean anything within the game? "For squeedlies, mash on the trembolo. For meedlies, tune up on your chord surpassers." NeonMerlin 01:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

No, it doesn't mean anything in the game, it's just supposed to be "advice" from Strong Bad on how to play the song and get that "squeedly-meedly" heavy metal guitar sound, but not knowing anything about guitars he's made up terms like "trembolo" and "chord surpassers". --Canley (talk) 02:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Although Tremolo is a real term, which refers to the end of the solo where you have to play a bunch of the same notes really fast. --Ouzo (talk) 13:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Essentially, it's meant to be parody of musical and guitar-related jargon. Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme (talk) 19:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

rocking us

BOTH linkin park and bob dylon are rock. so where's the difference? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonstop funstop (talk • contribs) 06:28, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Apart from the obvious listening-based difference look at our article Rock music - it suggests that rock is music with a predominantly vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums and bass. Since those elements can be used to produce music of such vast difference to each other we tend to see people adding in 'detail' such as soft-rock/hard-rock etc. The difference is obvious when you hear each respective artist, but the component parts are sufficiently similar - though some of Bob Dylan's stuff gets labelled folk music ny156uk (talk) 07:51, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Singing contest in South Asia

I heard that in Bangladesh that they their own "American Idol" as well as India has, but what about Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Do they have any singing contest? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.21 (talk) 19:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Possibly. Ericthebrainiac (talk) 22:44, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Eric is correct. There's our articles, Pakistan Idol and Idol series mentions a Sri Lanka contest. Julia Rossi (talk) 08:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Christina Aguilera's breasts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmcG0vjat0

Are they natural? It doesn't look so to me, but I've never eared she had breast implants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.0.195.195 (talk) 20:19, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It's possible that they're natural. I'm a dude without kids but as far as I understand it, breasts get a bit larger during pregnancy and while lactating. Dismas|^(talk) 20:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

They were pretty big naturally beforehand. She's breastfeeding, so now they are much bigger. I don't know in exact measurements how much bigger breasts get in general, but I guess at least 50% is about right. Adam Bishop (talk) 03:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I would have to put them in my mouth to determine if they're real or not. --Endless Dan 16:03, 15 April 2008 (UTC)